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Canada is the world's largest exporter of minerals and metals.
Leading products include potash (for which it holds the world's
largest and richest reseres) and uranium. The country is the
second-largest producer of asbestos and sulfur; the third-largest in
titanium, platinum-group metals, and mine zinc; fourth in aluminum;
fifth in copper, lead, siler, and gold; and among the leading
producers of nickel, salt, and nitrogen in ammonia. In 2000, the
alue of minerals production was US$84.2 billion. The top non-fuel
commodities in 2000 were nickel, gold, potash, copper, zinc, iron
ore, cement, and diamonds. Exports of non-fuel minerals in 2000 were
alued at US$44 billion.
Mined nickel (metal content) output in 2000 was 181,027 tons. The
same year, production included 153,781 kilograms (339,029 pounds) of
gold, 935,686 tons of zinc, and 623,451 tons of copper. In 1996,
mined siler output was 1.16 million kilograms (2.55 million
pounds). Other products include the metals of antimony, arsenic
tri-oxide, bismuth, cadmium, magnesium, molybdenum, spodumene,
tantalite tellurium, and titanium.
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Output totals for industrial minerals in 2000
included 2.5 million carats of industrial diamond, 1.9 million tons
of potash, 320,000 tons of asbestos, 11.9 million tons of salt, 9.36
million tons of sulfur, 4.14 million tons of nitrogen, and 246.3
million tons of sand and grael. In addition, Canada produced
minerals such as amethyst, hydraulic cement, clays, gypsum, jade,
lime, mica, pyrite, silica (quartz), soapstone, sodium carbonate
(soda ash), natural sodium sulfate, and stone. Canada also had
capacities to produce graphite and limestone. |
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